"I'll start with small things."
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"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all."
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"But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing."
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"If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse."
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"The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak."
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"When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
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"Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any."
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"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."
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"The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts."
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"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."
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"I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields."
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"And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go."
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"The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent."
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"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
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"Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole."
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"Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together."
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"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."
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"Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes."
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"To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance."
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